THE  CIGARETTE  AND  THE  YOUTH 


BY 

E.  A.  KING, 

President  Central  Anti- Cigarette  League, 

NEWPORT,   KENTUCKY. 


SIR  GEORGE  WILLIAMS, 

Founder  of  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  London,  England,  says  : 

"  I  sympathize  with  your  efforts  to  combat  this 
growing  evil,  and  wish  every  success  and  a  wide 
circulation  to  "The  Cigarette  and  the  Youth." 


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The  use  of  the  cigarette  is  universal. 

Many  billions  are  manufactured  an- 
nually. The  Internal  Revenue  Depart- 
ment and  the  printed  statements  of  to- 
bacco journals  corroborate  this  figure: 

'"During  the  fiscal  year  1896.  the 
number  manufactured  in  the  United 
States  was  4,043,798,737.  The  greatest 
production  was  in  October,  during 
which  month  458.  929,000  were  manu- 
factured. 

(Signed).  "T.  W.  WILSON. 

"Acting  Com.  Treas.  Dept.. 
'•Washington,  D.  C." 

May  10,  1897. 

Each  year  the  appliances  for  manu- 
facturing cigarettes  are  improved,  and 
the  cost  of  placing  them  upon  the  mar- 
ket is  very  little.  They  are  now  sold  at 
so  low  a  rate  that  they  can  be  purchas- 
ed by  a  child  for  a  few  pennies,  as 
candy  is  sold. 

There  is  a  great  profit  in  the  cigar- 
ette business,  and  largely  for  this  reas- 
on it  is  carried  on  in  its  present  enor- 
mous proportions.  The  American  To- 
bacco Trust  claims  that  in  one  year  it 
made,  clear  profit,  $4,000,000  from  the 
sale  of  cigarettes  alone. 

RECOGNIZED  AS  AN  EVIL. 

This  question  of  tobacco  using  by  the 
young  is  no  new  theme.  When  it  was 
first  introduced  by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh 
it  was  condemned  even  by  adults, 
and  when  Xew  England  was  first 
settled  a  rigid  law  was  passed  against 
its  use  in  the  settlement.  As  the  years 
have  passed  the  subject  has  been  agita- 
ted again  and  again.  The  government 
of  the  United  States  of  America  has 
prohibited  the  use  of  the  cigarette  at 
West  Point  and  Annapolis,  on  sanitary 
and  moral  grounds.  Many  colleges  pro- 
hibit its  use.  Dio  Lewis,  at.  D..  said 
tfiat  during  fifty  years  five  out  of  every 
six  of  the  students  at  Harvard  College 
were  addicted  to  the  use  of  tobacco, 


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font  "no  smoker  had  ever  graduated  at  \ 
the  head  of  his  class!"  Anti-cigarette 
leagues  have  "been  established  in 
schools,  laws  have  been  passed  in  for- 
ty-two States  and  published. 
'  [A.  general  agitation  has  been  raised 
again  and  again  against  its  use  by 
the  young,  but  somehow,  these  things 
have  gone  from  the  memory  of  the  law 
enforcers  and  the  general  public.  A 
new  generation  of  boys  and  girls  is 
growing  up  that  is  not  fully  aware  of 
all  the  danger,  and  in  trying  to  mirnic 
its  elders  falls  into  divers  temptations 
and  are  led  to  squander  energy  and 
acuteness  of  intellect  in  its  attempts  to 
"mannish,"  and  there  is  no  doubt  that 
the  present  adult  citizens  are  responsi- 
ble for  this  condition. 

The  cigarette  is  tolerated  as  a 
sort  of  necessary  evil,  akin  to  the 
.popular  "wild  oats"  notion,  *  but  when 
considered  from  a  scientific  standpoint, 
and  with  a  moral  perception,  the  cigar- 
ette deserves  its  popular  captions  of 
"Coffin  XaiLs"  and  "Devil's  Kindling 
Wood." 

PRINCIPAL   OBJECTIONS. 

First— The  Method  of  Manufacture: 
Originally,  cigarettes  were  made  by 
hand,  that  is.  they  were  rolled,  pasted 
and  packed  by  hand.  During  the  last 
three  or  five  years,  however,  machin- 
ery has  been  invented  so  that  much  of 
this  process  is  dispensed  with.  Many 
are  still  made  by  hand,  and  in  this 
process  lies  a  great  danger.  In  writing 
upon  this  subject.  Dr.  F.  W.  Abbott  t 
says:  "The  employes  of  the  large  man- 
ufactories of  New  York,  where  most 
cigarettes  are  made,  are  mainly  from 
the  lowest  and  most  degraded  classes— 


*Read  "SUCCESSWARD."  by  Edward.1,  W. 
Bock,  eh.  §  p.  09;  also  "Young-  Men  and  Mor- 
alit;-,"  in  NATIONAL  PURITY  CONGRESS, 
p.    82. 

t:\IASSACHUSETT3    MEDICAL    JOUR- 
XAL,  Boston,  Mass.,  Vol.  14,  p.  486,  Nov. 

*©4. 


drabs  from  the  slums  and  stews  of  the 
great  metropolis,  and  these  degraded 
women,  filthy  in  the  extreme,  and  often 
yictims  of  loathsome  diseases,  handle 
most  of  the  cigarettes  and  cheap  cigars, 
made."  The  demand  for  the  cigarette 
has  increased,  and  their  method  of 
manufacture  now  enables  the  demand 
to  be  supplied.  The  machines  that  are 
rapidly  taking  the  place  of  the  hand 
work  are  wonderful  inventions.  The 
machine  is  fed  with  an  endless  sheet 
of  paper;  the  tobacco  is  weighed  in  au- 
tomatic scales  that  pour  out  upon  the 
paper;  it  is  then  rolled,  pasted,  cut  into- 
appropriate  lengths,  counted,  assorted 
and  packed,  without  the  aid  of  human 
hands! 

Second  —  The  Peculiar  Ingredients. 
Used  in  Its  Manufacture. 

As  a  result  of  some  experiments  by 
the  writer  and  others,  the  following 
statements  are  made: 

A  cigarette  was  "smoked"  by  a  me- 
chanical arrangement  conducting  the 
smoke  into  'MAYER'S  TEST  FOR  AL- 
KALOIDS.* A  precipitate  was  thrown 
down.  This  demonstrates  the  pre- 
sence of  nicotine  in  some  considerable 
quantity. 

The  Journal  "Science"  says:  "Nico- 
tine is  one  of  the  most  powerful  nerve 
poisons  known.  Its  virulence  is  com- 
pared to  that  of  prusic  acid.  It  de- 
stroys life,  not  by  attacking  a  few,  but 
all  the  functions  essential  to  it,  begin- 
ning at  the  center,  the  heart.  A  sig- 
nificant indication  of  this  is  that  there 
is  no  substance  known  that  can  coun- 
teract its  effects.  Its  depressing  action 
upon  the  heart  is  the  most  noticeable 
and  noteworthy  symptom  of  nicotine 
poisoning.  The  frequent  existence  of 
what  is  known  as  "tobacco  heart"    in 


*This  test  was  kindly  suggested  by  the 
noted  pharmacist  and  author  of  "EDI- 
TORPHA,"  Prof.  John  iTri  Lloyd,  Ph.  G.. 
M.    D. 


—  5  — 

men  whose  health  is  in  no  other  re- 
spect disturbed  is  due  to  this  effect. 

'A  drop  of  nicotine  in  concentrated  so- 
lution is  sufficient  to  kill  a  dog.  In 
man,  it  is  said,  in  poisonous  doses,  to 
destroy  life  in  from  two  to  five  min- 
utes. 

Different  companies  make  different 
"brands"  by  mixing.  The  basis  of  the 
cigarette  is  generally  the  sun-dried  to- 
bacco of  North  Carolina.  Foreign  to- 
bacco is  often  used  with  the  above. 
Various  oils  and  drugs  are  also  used. 

A  physician  who  further  investigated 
the  subject  writes  that  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  opium,  valerian,  cannabis 
indica,  and  other  appetite  kindling 
drugs  are  used  to  a  large  extent. 

This  is  easily  noted  in  the  increasing 
craving  for  the  cigarette  in  the  consti- 
tution of  the  smoker.  He  begins  with 
one,  then  two,  then  three,  and  so  on,  to 
five  or  more  boxes  a  day,  until  at  last 
an  internal  gnawing  desire  takes  com- 
plete possession  of   the  victim. 

Another  physician  writes:  "The 
cigarette  is  made,  in  most  cases,  of 
drugged  tobacco."  'Opium  is  the.  chief" 
drug  used,  a  fact  testified  to  by  all  who  - 
investigate. 

"One  physician  claims  that  cigarette  - 
smoking  is  another  form  of  the  opium  . 
habit. 

A  noted  Kentucky  physician  writes 
that  some  cheap  cigarettes  are  made 
out  of  the  remains  of  cigars  smoked 
and  the  stubs  thrown  in  the  gutters  . 
and  cuspidores,  together  with  the  quids ; 
of  tobacco.  These,  he  says,  are  col- 
lected, dried,  ground  up  and  mixed 
with  refuse  opium  and  other  drugs. 

An  Italian  boy,  8  years  old,  was  arrest- 
ed and  tried  for  vagrancy  before  a  justice 
in  New  York  City,  having  in  his  possess- 
ion a  basket  half  full  of  cigar  stumps. 
Upon  being  asked  what  he  did  with  them, 
he  said  that  he  sold  them  to  a  man  for* 
ten  cents  a  pound,  to  be  used  in  making 
cigarettes.— (M.  L.  in  "An  Open  Letter  toe 
Boys,"    p.   5.) 

"A  leading  journal   of   Philadelphia. 


describes       the       way       material      is 
secured       for        making        cigarettes: 
Scavengers       go        around       to      sa- 
loons and  bar  rooms  picking  up  stubs 
of  cigars  and  raking  over  the  contents 
of  spittoons  for  rejected  quids  of  to- 
bacco.    Tbese  are  thrown  into  a  sack 
and  carried  to  the  manufactory  where 
they     are     cleansed    (?),    ground     up, 
sprinkled   with   liquor.  Havana  flavor- 
ing and  other  chemicals  added,  and  al- 
lowed to  stand  till  the  whole  mass  is 
permeated   with   the  flavoring.    It     is 
Then  rolled  up  in  its  paper  wrapping, 
and  becomes  the  cigarettes  considered 
so  dainty.     The  rolling  introduces  an- 
other element  of  filth,  as  in  doing  it  the 
rollers    continually    moisten   their   fin- 
gers with  their  own  spittle.    This  work 
is   often  done  at  home  in  the  lowest 
and  filthiest  tenement  houses,  often  in 
the  very  room  with  contagious  disease. 
Thus     cigarettes     often     become     the 
means  of  spreading' the     most     loath- 
some disease.    'Leprosy  has  thus  been 
disseminated   from   leprous   hands   en- 
gaged   in    rolling    cigarettes.''— Loyal 
Temperance  Legion     Manual,     "Men," 
Chicago,   March  20,   1S97. 

Third — Manner  of  smoking. 
The  "accomplished"'  cigarette  smok- 
er    is     not     content    with     a     single 
puff  of  smoke;  but  he  draws  the  smoke 
into  the  depths  of  his  lungs,  holds  it 
there  a  moment,  and  then  expels     it 
through    his    mouth    and    nose.     The 
poison  is  thus  allowed  to  penetrate  to 
every  portion  of  the  lung  cavity,  and. 
by  absorption,  is  taken  into  the  bloofl.i 
Think  of  taking  into  one's  lungs  con- 
tagious germs  that  in  time  may  devel- 
op into  horrible  diseases!    But  this  is 
not  all.    The  smoke,  as  it  eomes  in  con- 
tact with  the  delicate  mucuous  mem- 
brane that  lines  the    cavities     of    the 


±See  Kirkes'  HAND  BOOK  OF  PHYSI- 
OLOGY, Ed.  1895,  Ch.  "Th»  Blood"  and 
"Respiratory  Changes  in  th«  Blood, "  pp. 


—  7  — 

throat  and  nose,  causes  an  intense  ir- 
ritation, which  brings  on  what  is 
known  as  "smoker's  thirst/"  This  dry- 
ness is  often  alleviated  by  the  use  of 
alcoholic  drink,  and  so  men  are  very 
frequently  led  into  the  lives  of  drunk- 
enness and  debauchery  through  this 
means. 

Fourth — Hereditary  Results. 

"The  parent  .whose  blood  and  secre- 
tions are  saturated  with  tobacco,  and 
whose  brain  and  nervous  system  are 
semi-narcotized  hf  it,  must  trans- 
mit to  his  child  elements  of 
a  distempered  body  and  er- 
ratic mind;  a  deranged  condition 
of  organic  atoms  which  elevate  the  an- 
imalism of  the  future  being  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  moral  and  intellectual 
nature." 

While  smokers  may  be  apparently 
free  from  these  evils  themselves,  yet 
children  born  to  them  may  grow  up 
weakly  and  nervous,  tainted  with  other 
hereditary  ailments,  and  quite  fre- 
quently epileptics   and  imbecile. 

A  certain  man,  seventy  odd  years  of 
age,  living  in  H.,  still  retains  his  even 
disposition,  good  health  and  genial 
manner,  yet  all  of  his  children  are 
physically  below  the  average. 
Tobacco  inheritance  is  also  one 
of  the  causes  of  weak  eyes, 
dull  ears  and  mental  and  moral  ob- 
tuseness  among  many  of  the  boys  and 
girls  we  see  to-day  wearing  glasses 
and  loafing  about  the  street  corners. 

A  clergyman  denied  the  ill  effects  of 
tobacco-using,  asserting  that  his  father 
had  always  smoked  and  at  93  was  still 
vigorous.  But  the  clergyman  at  61 
was  a  nervous  wreck,  and  his  son,  the 
grandson  of  the  vigorous  old  smoker, 
was  obliged  to  leave  college  at  19  be- 
cause of  nervous  exhaustion. 


OTHER       PHYSICAL,       AND       MORAL* 
DANGERS. 

1.  It  lowers  the  dignity  of  the  boy 
who  smokes.  "Boys  are  the  stuff  that 
men  are  made  of,"  but  the  first  cigar- 
ette is  lighted  in  a  corner,  the  boy  is 
ashamed,  and  the  first  step  is  taken  in 
a  downward  career. 

2.  It  makes  him  obnoxious  to  his 
friends.  The  aroma  arising  from  the 
person  and  breath  of  a  cigarette 
smoker  is  most  disgusting.  Many  pub- 
lic buildings  and  business  establish- 
ments have  prohibited  the  smoking  of 
them   in   or  about  their  premises. 

3.  It  enslaves  him  to  a  fatal  habit, 
Oradually,  little  by  little,  the  chains 
of  repeated  action  grip  about  his  will- 
power, growing  slowly  but  surely,  un- 
til the  bright  eager  mind  is  withered 
and  blasted. 

"Close  observation  for  a  number  of 
years  convinces  us  that  the  use  of  to- 
bacco by  boys  in  their  teens  is  the  prin- 
cipal cause  of  failure.  It  takes  the 
:  strength,  shatters  the  nerves  and  de- 
stroys the  will  power  to  such  an.  extent 
that  but  a  very  few  who  have  the  habit 
are  able  to  do  our  work  well." — (From 
the  Tenth  Catalogue  of  the  Technical 
School,    Cincinnati,    O.,   1895-6,    p.   30.) 

4.  The  moral  and  mental  perceptions 
are  deadened.  The  once  bright,  ener- 
getic mind,  the  clear,  clean-cut  distinc- 
tion between  right  and  wrong  is 
weakened,  and  sometimes  entirely  ob- 
liberated.  All  this  comes  gradually, 
and  the  lad  is  usually  unconscious  of 
the  change  until  it  is  too  late  to  mend. 

The  principal  of  a  Chicago  school 
gives  this  result  of  three  years  of  in- 
vestigation: 

"In  one  school  it  was  found  that  125 
boys  were  addicted  to  the  cigarette  habit. 
Twenty-five  of  these  confessed  that  they 
were  too  sleepy  to  study;  thirty  of  them 
said  they  were  dizzy  after  smoking; 
twenty-two  could  not  write  neatly  became 
their  hands  trembled,  and  several  said 
they  felt  'shaky'  when  they  walked.  It 
was  also  shown  that  the  cigarette  habit 
graduallj-  blunted  the  moral  sensibilities 
of  the  boys,   making  them   deceptive,   se- 


cretive  and  untruthful,  while  very  few 
of  them  were  able  to  keep  up  with  their 
classmates  who  were  not  addicted  to  the 
baneful   habit."— (From    "Men.") 

5.  Physical  disorders  are  the  natural 
consequence  of  this  indulgence.  They 
are  varied  and  numerous.  Among 
them  may  he  named  "smoker's  cancer," 
"tobacco  heart,"  heart  disease  and 
paralysis.  Nervousness,  dyspepsia  and 
nausea  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  the. 
smoker.  The  voice,  eyes  and  sense  of 
taste  and  smell  are  more  or  less  in- 
jured. Drunkenness  and  gross  immor- 
ality frequently  follow,  and  life  itself 
becomes  a  wreck.  The  late  Dr. 
Mussey,  of  Cincinnati,  O.,  said: 
"Smoking  and  chewing  tobacco  pro- 
duces a  continual  thirst  for  stimulating 
drinks,  and  this  tormenting  thirst  is 
what  leads  to  drunkenness." 

"A  physician  of  'Milwaukee,  Wis., 
who  recently  made  affidavit  that  a  cer- 
tain young  man  of  that  city  had  be- 
come insane  from  smoking  cigarettes, 
said  in  his  affidavit:  IT  he  morbid 
pathological  condition  produced  from 
smoking  is  often  thickening  of  the 
capillaries  in  lung  substance;  then  fol- 
lows a  morbid  change  in  nerve  fila- 
ments in  lungs,  which  results  in  a 
sclerosis  of  nerve,  finally  reaching  the 
brain  and  producing  insanity.'  " 

FINAL.  RESULTS. 

1.  Broken  Constitution.  The  lungs 
and  general  health  are  so  weakened 
and  impaired  that  when  disease  from 
other  causes  come,  the  body  is  unable 
to  resist,  and  therefore  sinks  for  want 
of  vitality.  (Many  cases  of  consumption 
began  with  this  habit. 

'Out  of  nine  applicants  for  position 
on  the  naval  cruiser,  "Michigan,"  only 
three  were  accepted.  Dr.  (Edgar,  the 
surgeon,  when  asked  the  cause  of  the 
bodily  conditions  which  led  to  the  re- 
jection of  so  large  a  proportion  of  the 


—  10  — 

bays,  said:  "The  main  cause  is  cigar- 
ette smoking." 

A  bright  hoy  of  thirteen. came  under 
the  spell  of  cigarettes.  He  grew  stupid 
and  subject  to  nervous  twitchings,_ 
then  finally  he  was  obliged  to  cease" 
study.  When  asked  why  he  didn't 
throw  away  his  miserable  cigarette, 
the  poor  boy  replied  with  tears  that  he 
had  often  tried  to  do  so,  but  could  not. 
Another  boy  of  eleven  was  made  crazy 
by  cigarette  smoking  and  was  taken  to 
an  insane  asylum  in  Orange  county, 
N.  Y.  He  was  regarded  as  a  violent 
and  dangerous  maniac,  exhibiting  some 
of  the  symptoms  peculiar  to  hydropho- 
bia. 

A  fine  young  boy  of  18  sits  in  a  dark 
room,  his  eyes  swollen  and  painful,  the 
cause,  cigarette  smoking,  He  has  been 
warned  of  the  danger  many  times,, 
but  would  not  listen,  like  thousands  of 
others.  This  is  what  he  says:  "I  can't 
see  now.  They  told  me  it  would  hurt 
me,  but  I  did  not  believe  it.  I  never 
expect  to  see  the  beautiful  world  again, 
bin  if  I  do  I'll  never  smoke  another 
cigarette." 

William  Bird  began  smoking  at  14. 
After  four  years'  smoking,  some  of  the 
time  three  or  four  packages  a  day.  he 
began  acting  queerly,  then  became  vio- 
lent, was  taken  to  the  hospital,  where 
it  was  necessary  to  strap  him  to  his 
cot.  After  a  long  treatment  the  spasms 
were  subdued,  but  he  lay  on  his  cot 
pale  and  thin,  a  pitiful  object,  his  sys- 
tem saturated  with  nicotine  and  opium. 

'George  Mann,  a  bell  boy  in  Lincoln, 
Neb'.,  '"an  inveterate  cigarette  smoker," 
locked  himself  in  a  room,  raving  and 
screaming,  crazed  by  poison.  These 
instances  can  be  multiplied  by  hun- 
dreds. 

2.     Death  Frequently  Follows. 

I  have  known  of  four  deaths  induced 
by  cigarette  smoking  within  a  year  or 


—  11  — 

two.    Friends    report    others.    Physic- 
ians  testify    to   this   truth. 

A  young  man  of  17  in  Hohoken,  W. 
J.,  another  of  19  in  Streafor,  111.,  died 
from  its  effects.  A  choir  boy  of  St. 
Mary's  church,  Brooklyn,  16  years  of 
age,  an  exquisite  singer,  died  in  St. 
John's  hospital.  The  sister  who  at- 
tended him  says:  "During  all  his  suf- 
fering he  neyer  forgot  what  brought 
him  to  this  terrible  condition.  He 
kept  asking  me  to  warn  all  boys 
against  their  use."  When  asked  why 
he  did  not  stop  when  he  saw  it  was 
hurting  him,  'he  replied:  "Oh,  I  could 
not.  If  I  could  not  get  to  smoke  I  al- 
most went  wild.  I  could  think  of  noth- 
ing dse.  For  months  I  kept  it  up, 
though  I  knew  it  was  killing  me.  Then 
I  seemed  to  fall  to  pieces  all  of  a  sud- 
den." 

A  school  teacher  in  New  England 
writes.  "When  I  first  began  to  teach 
in  N.  A.,  a  certain  boy  gave  much 
trouble  by  his  smoking.  (He  ceased  to 
grow  at  11,  and  was  very  small.  With- 
in a  year  he  has  died  of  paralysis,  aged 
21  years." 

IMPREGNABLE  TESTIMONY. 

Concerning  'Smoking  by  the  Young. 
The  first  testimony  is  that  of  the  re- 
spected and  honored  Doctors  Seaver, 
of  Yale, .University,  and  Hitchcock,  of 
Amherst.  College.  They  have  clearly 
demonstrated  by  actual  personal  exam- 
ination and  recorded  statistics,  that  the 
use  of  tobacco  among  college  students 
■checks  growth  in  weight,  height,  chest- 
girth,  and,  most  of  all,  lung  capacity. 
If  this  be  true  of  young  men  so  near- 
ly grown  as  college  students,  what 
must.be  the  effect  upon  younger  boys? 
2.  Testimony  of  a  Tobacco  Journal. 
A  yery  significant  statement  is  made 
by  "'Cope's  Tobacco  Plant,"  a  journal 
■of  the  trade.  It  says:  "Few  things 
could  be  more  pernicious  to  boys,  grow- 


—  12  — 

ing  youths  and  persons  of  unformed 
constitution  than  the  use  of  tobacco 
in  any  of  its  forms."  Another  writer 
testifies  that  the  smoking  of  the  cigar- 
ette lowers  vitality,  lessens  bodily 
vigor,  unfits  the  victim  for  concen- 
trated study  and  is  usually  associated 
with  low  morals  and  with  the  practice 
of  other  vices. 

CONCLUSIONS. 

In  a  case  so  clearly  demonstrated,  it 
seems  that  the  boys  who  smoke,  and 
men  who  sell  to  them,  and  parents  and 
teachers  who  stand  looking  on,  should 
join  hands  and  hearts  in  an  earnest 
effort  for  the  moral,  physical  and  legal 
protection  of  the  rising  generation. 

APPENDIX. 

Numerous  interested  persons  ars  ask- 
ing how  to  carry  on  Anti-Cigarette 
Work.  There  is  a  desire  on  the  part  of 
teachers  and  others  to  organize  among 
the  young  people,  especially  in  the  pub- 
lic schools.  We  feel  that  this  desire 
should  be  met  in  an  intelligent  manner 
and  so  present  the  following  suggest- 
ions, based  upon  actual  experience. 

1.  Thoroughly  Study  the  Subject. 
By  sending  to  Mrs.  E.  B.  Ingalls,  4119 
Westminster  Place,  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
helpful  literature  upon  the  general 
theme  of  anti-  tobacco  may  be  secured. 
Examine  the  'Science  Series  of  school 
physiologies,  concerning  the  physiolog- 
ical effects  upon  body  and  mind.  (See 
list  of  books  and  pamphlets  given  in 
"Tools  for  Workers.") 

2.  Get  Others  Interested. 

Carefully  mark  the  printed  mat- 
ter and  loan  it  to  friends,  whose 
influence  and  co-operation  is  de- 
sirable. Draw  up  some  sort  of 
statement  as  to  the  proposed 
plans  of  work  and  call  upon  physicians, 
clergymen  and  educators;  get  them  to 
commend  the  movement  by  giving 
their  personal  signatures,  and  then  use 


—  13  — 

the  daily  press  and  printer's  ink  free- 
ly in  distributing  the  results. 

3.  Seek  to  Create  an  Intelligent  Pub- 
lic Sentiment. 

This  may  be  accomplished  by 
giving  public  talks  or  addresses, 
or  getting  others  to  do  so.  Se- 
cure large  quantities  of  these  pam 
phlets,  "The  Cigarette  and  the  Youth," 
and  distribute  them  carefully.  Seek 
an  opportunity  to  present  the  subject 
before  conventions  of  reformers,  teach- 
ers, etc.  Get  ministers  and  Sunday- 
school  superintendents  to  devote  to  it 
sermons  and  lessons  at  stated  times  in 
the  year. 

4.  Organize  Anti-Cigarette  Leagues. 
This  may  be  accomplished  in  conjunc- 
tion with  school  teachers,  superintend- 
ents, Sunday-School  workers,  clergy- 
men, etc. 

We  advise  the  following  simple 
pledges: 

PLEDGE. 

We,  the  undersigned,  do  hereby 
pledge  ourselves  upon  honor  to  abstain 
from  smoking  cigarettes  of  any  kind; 
to  abstain  from  the  use  of  tobacco  in 
all  its  forms;  to  use  our  influence  to 
induce  all  boys  of  our  acquaintance  to 
take  this  pledge. 

With  the  consent  of  the  league— by 
two-thirds  vote— girls  and  young 
women  may  become  honorary  mem- 
bers by  signing  the  following: 

[PLEDGE. 

'Abstaining  myself  from  all  narcotics, 
I  promise  to  use  my  influence  to  induce 
all  girl®  and  boys  and  young  men  to 
do  the  same;  also  to  encourage  those 
already  members  of  the  league. 

Have  the  pledge  strictly  and  simply 
aDti-tobaeco.  Do  not  introduce  into  it 
anything  else,  such  as  temperance  or 
patriotism.  'For  very  small  boys  and 
girls  a  temporary  pledge  is  suggested, 
i.  e.,  limit  it  to  the  school  year. 


—  14  — 

5.     Keep  Up  tlie  Interest. 

By  holding  monthly  meetings  of  the 
league,  and  once  in  a  while  hold  a  mass 
meeting  of  all  the  leagues,  at  which 
time  have  an  instructive;  illustrated 
anti-tobacco  lecture. 

AGITATE. 

Write  letters  to  state  and  national 
legislators  urging  them  to  vote  for  the 
anti-cigarette  bills  now  pending  in 
nearly  every  state.  Secure  names  of 
voters  and  petition  city  councils  or 
town  boards  to  abolish  them,  or  at 
least  put  a  high  license  upon  their  sale 
and  see  that  the  lav/  is  enforced. 
•  Twenty-seven  state  legislatures  have 
before  them  bills  for  the  regulation  of 
the  sale  of  cigarettes  and  the  prohi- 
bition of  their  sale  to  boys. 

Editor  Ober,  of  "Men."  aptly  says: 
''It  is  to  be  most  earnestly  hoped  that' 
the  crusade  against  the  cigarette  will 
result  in  the  suppression  of  the  white- 
robed,  blood-sucking  pestilential  nuis- 
ance. A  few  determined  men  can  make 
their  influence  count  heavily  for  the 
good  of  the  coming  generation  of  boys 
by  urging  the  anti-cigarette  bills  now 
pending."  E.  A.  KING. 

Newport.,  Ky.,  April  16,  1897. 


NOTICE.— The  readers  will  confer  a 
favor  on  the  publishers  if  they  will 
send  all  items  of  interest  along  this 
line  to  Dept.  C,  Wood-Allen  Pub.  Co., 
Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 


A  FEW  INTERESTING  EXTRACTS. 


A  HUSBAND'S  TESTIMONY. 
In  evidence  of  the  last  charge,  which 
is  the  gist  of  his  plaint,  and.  by  the 
way,  solely  responsible  for  our  theme, 
he  avers  that  his  wife  can  detect  to- 
bacco, by  smell  and  taste,  in  the  candy 
from  one  of  the  neatest  groceries  in 
town.  He  knows  this;  for  he  has  tested 


—15  — 

her,  now  .and  then,  with  goods  bought, 
at  first-hand,  of  a  confectioner  who  ex- 
cludes the  weed  from  his  manufactory, 
and  never  found  her  lacking.  There- 
fore, he  infers  a  like  contamination  of 
various  food-stuffs,  and  suggests  the 
retail  of  tobacco,  in  all  its  prepara- 
tions, by  tobacconists  only. — Massachu- 
setts Medical  Journal. 


A  recent  article  in  the  Chicago 
Tribune  shows  that  the  cigarette  habit 
among  school  boys  is  making  gigantic 
strides,  "several  thousand  having  be- 
come addicted  to  the  habit,  while  the 
majority  are  so  affected  mentally  and 
physically  that  they  are  unable  to  make 
further  progress  in  their  studies."  Of 
125  boys  addicted  to  the  habit,  only  ten 
were  able  to  keep  pace  with  their 
classes.  "Twenty-five  stated  they 
could  not  learn  their  lessons  because 
most  of  the  time  they  were  'too- 
sleepy;'  "  thirty  were  dizzy,  twenty-two 
were  unable  to  write  because  of  tremb- 
ling hands.  They  "felt  shaky"  when 
they  walked.  "A  large  number  were 
unable  to  run  any  distance,  some  not. 
more  than  a  block. "  Nearly  all  had 
headache.  "Ten  of  these  boys  were 
four  or  five  years  -too  old  for  their 
grades."— (From  Good  Health,  July,  '97. 


HEART  DISEASE. 

Editor  The  Voice.— The  increasing 
habit  of  cigarette  smoking  by  boys  un- 
der twenty  years  of  age  results,  accord- 
ing to  my  experience,  in  organic 
disease  of  the  heart,  and  I  have  known 
several  cases  of  death  to  be  hastened 
or  caused  in  part  by  the  use  of  cigar- 
ettes. F.  M.  Blodgett,  M.  D. 

T28G  Broadway,  New  York 

Member  of  Mass.  iMedical  Society, 
New  York  Historical  Society,  etc. 


FEARFULLY  INJURIOUS. 

Editor    The    Voice.— My     experience 


—  16  — 

shows  that  the  cigarette  habit  when  in- 
dulged in  by  boys  of  under  twenty 
years  is  very  injurious  under  all  cir- 
cumstances, and  fearfully  so  when  the 
smoke  is  inhaled  as  ft  generally  is.  It 
strongly  predisposes  to  catarrh,  con- 
sumption and  permanent  injury  of  the 
vocal  organs.  J.  D.  Beeck,  M.  D. 

Cincinnati,  O. 

Dean  of  Pulte  Medical  College. 


CAUSES      DISTURBANCES      OF      THE 
HEART. 

Editor  The  Voice.— My  observation  is 
that  the  habit  of  smoking  cigarettes  is 
increasing  among  boys.lt  causes  func- 
tional disturbance  of  the  heart,  and  fre- 
quently valvitKr  murmurs..  I  know 
cases  where  an  organic  affection  has 
been  caused  by  persistency  of  the  func- 
tional disturbance. 

W.  P.  Brechin,  M.  D. 

16  Temple  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


APT  TO   CAUSE  CANCER. 

Editor  The  Voice.— The  habit  pro- 
duces palpitation  of  the  heart,  and  gas- 
tric indigestion,  besides  many  other 
evil  effects.  I  know  a  recent  case  of 
"ichthyosis  linguae"  (a  disease  of  the 
mucous  membrane  of  the  tongue)  which 
is  very  apt  to  terminate  in  cancer.  It 
was  brought  on  by  an  inordinate  use  of 
cigarettes.  M.  D. 

New  York  Citv. 


Editor  The  Voice.— I  have  seen  death 
from  inhaling  cigarettes,  and  persons 
incapacitated  from  business  and  made 
wrecks.  It  is  explained  in  this  way. 
The  smoke  when  inhaled  is  brought  in 
contact  with  over  500  cubit  feet  of  sur- 
fact  in  the  lungs,  with  immense  fa- 
cilities for  absorption,  and  at  once  the 
nicotine  is  deposited  in  a  fruitful  field 
and  incorporated  in  the  blood. 

Herber  Bishop,  M.  D. 

Hoffman  House.  Boston.  Mass. 


—  17  — 

Surgeon  U.  S.  Mutual  Accident  As- 
sociation of  N.  Y.;  Late  Surgeon  of  Her 
Majesty's  58th  Regiment,  Canada. 


LOSS   OF  MENTAL,  CAPABILITY. 

Editor  The  Voice.— In  San  Francisco 
the  cigarette  habit  among  boys  is  in- 
creasing alarmingly.  Ischaemia  of  the 
vascular  system;  irritable,  palpitating 
heart;  atonic  dyspepsia  and  severe 
nervous  irritability,  with  loss  of  mental 
capability,  are  some  of  the  noticeable 
results  of  the  habit. 

Winslow  Anderson,  M.  D. 

829  Broadway  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Asst.  to  chair  of  Materia  Medica  and 
Medical  Chemistry,  University  of  Cal. 


STUNTS  THE  GROWTH. 

Editor  The  Voice.— The  habit  of 
cigarette  smoking,  indulged  in  by  boys 
under  twenty,  results  in  stunted 
growth,  nervousness,  indigestion  and 
disease  of  brain  and  kidneys.  It  dulls 
the  intellect  to  a  great  extent.  The 
use  of  cigarettes  among  boys  is  in- 
creasing to  an  alarming  extent,  and  I 
have  known  the  habit  in  some  cases  to 
hasten  death.         C.  P.  Chesley,  M.  D. 

754  Howard  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


PREVENTS    DEVELOPMENT. 

Editor  The  Voice.— The  cigarette 
habit  is  increasing  even  among  boys  of 
not  more  than  six  years  of  age.  It  pre- 
vents development,  mentally,  morally 
and  physically. 

C.  T.  Cranfleld,M.  D. 

244  Lincoln  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 

Treasurer  of  Women's  Home  Medical 
Society  of  Chicago. 


INSANITY  AND  SUICIDE. 
Editor  The  Voice.— Cigarette  smok- 
ing is  increasing  to  an  alarming  extent 
among  boys. It  causes  nervousness  and 
disease  of  the  stomach  and  heart.  I 
know  of  a  case  of  insanitv  and  suicide 


—  18  — 

caused  directly  by  the  immoderate  use 
of  cigarettes.       C.  TV.  Benson,  Ql.  D. 

521  N.  Howard  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Specialist  in  Dermatology. 


THE   TOBACCO   HEART. 

Editor  The  Voice. — I  observe  that  the 
cigarette  habit  is  increasing  among 
boys  and  also  among  girls.  It  impairs 
nutrition,  develops  the  "tobacco  heart" 
(weak  heart)  and  impairs  the  vigor  of 
the  circulation,  producing  dyspepsia, 
short  breath  and  constipation. 

James  Collins.  M.  D. 

704  Franklin  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


POISONED  BY  TOBACCO    SMOKE. 

The  fact  has  just  leaked  out  that  Mr. 
TV.  L.  Mallory,  who  fell  dead  in  a  Cin- 
cinnati Northern  Railroad  car  on  his 
way  to  his  home  in  Avondale,  Monday 
evening,  was  slowly  killed  by  inhaling 
the  nauseous  fumes  of  the  deadly  cigar- 
ette and  the  villainous  cigar.  At  least, 
his  heart  trouble,  which  had  seldom 
given  him  any  uneasiness,  was  so  ag- 
gravated by  the  suffocating  smoke  in 
the  car  that  he  died  after  breathing  it 
a  few  moments,  and  two  other  men, 
whose  names  could  not  be  ascertained 
last  night,  fell  in  fainting  tits.  The 
''accomniodatioji"  on  the  road  is  *  little 
bob-tail  car,  with  only  one  compart- 
ment, into  which  men.  women,  and 
children  are  all  jammed  together.  Un- 
til a  few  weeks  since  two  cars  or  one 
large  car  with  a  partition  were  used. 
One-half  of  the  latter  was  intended  as 
a  smoker  for  gentlemen.  Under  this 
arrangement  lovers  of  the  weed  could 
take  it  easy  and  smoke  at  their  con- 
venience. When  this  car  was  taken 
off  there  was  great  objection,  and  many 
patrons  of  the  road  filed  their  protests. 
When  Mr.  Mallory  boarded  the  train 
he  was  in  robust  health.  The  car  was 
crowded  with  men  and  women.  Many 
of  the  men  were  smoking.     The  win- 


—  19  — 

dows  were  all  down,  and  the  smoke  was 
so  dense  in  the  coach  that  it  could  be 
cut  with  a  knife.  Mr.  Merriweather, 
the  tea  merchant,  was  on  the  train,  and 
gives  a  vivid  description  of  the  scene. 
To  a  News- Journal  reporter  who  ques- 
tioned him  he  said:  "The  atmosphere 
in  the  car  was  stifling— suffocating.  My 
wife  was  with  me,  and  we  were  seated 
"behind  two  young  men  who  were  smok- 
ing cigarettes.  They  puffed  out  the 
smoke  in  immense  volumes,  and  my 
wife  began  to  get  sick.  I  went  up  in 
the  forward  part  of  the  car,  and  a 
couple  of  gentlemen  offered  me  their 
seat,  which  I  accepted  for  Mrs.  LUerri- 
weather.  It  was  the  seat  we  vacated 
that  Mr.  Mallcry  and  another  gentle- 
jnan  occupied,  so  that  they  got  the 
benefit  of  the  same  smoke  that  made 
my  wife  ill.  It  would  be  hard  to  de- 
scribe the  atmosphere  in  the  car.  When 
Mr.  Mallory  fell  over  and  was  in  his 
death-struggles  his  companion  on  Lhe 
seat,  who  was  also  affected  by  the 
nauseous  air,  fell  in  a  dead  faint.  Those 
who  rushed  to  the  relief  of  both 
thought  they  had  two  dead  men  on  the 
car,  for  the  other  gentleman  seemed  to 
be  as  lifeless  as  Mr.  Mallory.  The 
first  thing  was  to  break  the  windows 
and  let  in  some  fresh  air.  Water  was 
hastily  procured,  and  all  the  usual 
restoratives  applied,  but  it  was  found 
that  Mr.  Mallory  was  dead.  The  other 
gentleman  no  one  knew.  He  was  tak- 
-en  in  charge  by  the  conductor,-  and  at 
the  Zoological  Gardens  transferred  to 
the  other  car  and  brought  back  to  the 
city,  where  he  was  properly  cared  for. 
He  was  very  sick,  and  for  a  While  it 
was  feared  he  would  die.  I  also  under- 
stand that  another  man  on  the  car  be- 
came sick  and  nearly  fainted." — From 
the  Cincinnati  News  Journal,  March  1G. 


Rev.  Mr.  Kidder,  writing  in  the  Ad- 
vance, refers  to  a  Wisconsin  city  of  G,- 


—  20  — 

000  population  in  which  a  recent  inves- 
tigation revealed  the  fact  that  a  single 
dealer  retailed  on  an  average  300  cigar- 
ettes per  day,  or  between  one  and  two- 
thousand  by  the  various  dealers  of  the 
town. 


In  Lansing,  Mich.,  Superintendent 
Laird  and  others  made  a  systematic 
canvass  of  the  schools,  and  the  habit  of 
using  tobacco  was  found  to  have  been 
formed  by  many  boys.  Some  of  them 
had  gone  so  far  as  to  forge  their  par- 
ents' names  in  order  to  procure  the 
weed.  A  principal  in  Chicago  says  the 
sale  of  cigarettes  to  children  has  been 
steadily  increasing,  and  that  she  actu- 
ally discovered  a  boy  of  eleven  years 
smoking  in  her  office,  his  desire  to 
smoke  being  so  strong  that  he  ran  the 
risk  of  indulging  even  there. 


BEWARE  OF  THE  CIGARETTE  GROC- 
ER. 

An  infernal  method  of  extending 
trade  has  been  adopted  by  a  St.  Louis 
grocer.  With  every  purchase  made  by 
the  small  boys  of  the  neighborhood  he 
would  give  them  three  cigarettes.  As 
there  is  now  a  grade  of  cigarettes  made 
that  wholesale  at  fifty  for  five  cents, 
this  was  a  profitable  method  of  adver- 
tising. Boys  would  go  numbers  of 
blocks  out  of  their  way  when  sent  to 
purchase  articles  in  the  grocery  line  in 
order  to  deal  with  this  man  who  gave 
them  cigarettes  with  every  purchase. 
The  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch  has  got- 
ten after  this  fellow,  and  shows  him 
up  as  a  destroyer  of  youth.  Their  of- 
fice boy  was  sent  to  purchase  a  bar  of 
soap,  and  was  given  three  cigarettes  as 
a  douceur  to  encourage  further  trade. 
The  very  best  grades  of  cigarettes  are 
bad  enough,  but  when  it  comes  to  giv- 
ing out  rank  guttersnipes  in  the  shape 
of  coffin  tacks  as  an  advertisement(  it 
is  certainly  time  to  call  a  halt. — From 


—  21  — 

the    Prison    rMirror,    Minnesota    State 
Prison. 


LISTEN,  BOYS! 

Hear  what  Mr.  George  Baumhoff, 
iSuperintendent  of  the  Lindell  Railway 
of  St.  Louis,  says  about  the  use  of  cig- 
arettes: 

"Under  no  circumstances  will  I  hire 
.a  man  who  smokes  cigarettes.  He  is 
as  dangerous  on  the  front  end  of  a 
motor  as  a  man  that  drinks;  in  fact, 
lie  is  more  dangerous.  His  nerves  are 
bound  to  give  way  at  a  critical  mo- 
ment. A  motorman  needs  all  his  nerve 
all  the  time,  and  a  cigarette  smoker 
■can't  stand  the  strain.  It  is  a  pretty 
tough  job  for  men  in  good  condition, 
and  even  they  sometimes  get  flurried. 
If  I  find  a  car  beginning  to  run  badly 
and  getting  irregular  for  any  time,  I 
immediately  begin  to  investigate  the 
man  to  find  out  if  he  smokes  cigarettes. 
Nine  times  out  of  ten  he  does,  and  then 
he  goes  for  good." 


Major  .  Houston  of  the  Annapolis 
Naval  Schools,  says  that  one-fifth  of 
the  boys  who  apply  for  admission  are 
rejected,  on  account  of  heart  disease, 
and  90  per  cent  of  those  thus  rejected 
have  induced  the  heart-disease  in  them- 
selves by  the  use  of  tobacco. 

Dr.  Seaver  says:  "A  tabulation  of 
the  records  of  the  students  who  en- 
tered Yale  in  nine  years,  when  all  the 
young  men  were  examined  and  meas- 
ured, shows  that  the  smokers  averaged 
fifteen  months  older  than  the  non- 
smokers,  but  that  their  size,  except  in 
weight,  which  was  one  and  four-tenths 
kilograms  more,  was  inferior  in  height 
to  the  extent  of  seven  millimeters,  and 
lung  capacity  to  the  extent  of  eighty 
cubic  centimeters."— From  Good 
Health,  July.  1897. 


—  22- 

Dr,  J.  C.  Mulhall,  in  writing  on  the 
"Cigarette  Habit,"  says:  "At  several 
of  our  great  universities  it  lias  been 
found  by  exact  and  scientific  investi- 
gation that  the  per  centage  of  winners 
in  intellectual  and  athletic  contests  is 
considerably  higher  in  total  abstainers 
from  tobacco."— From  Good  Health, 
Julv.  1897. 


Dr.  E.  Hitchcock,  of  Amherst  Coi- 
lege,  says:  "In  separating  the  smokers 
from  the  non-smokers,  it  appears  that 
in  the  item  of  weight,  the  non-smokers 
have  increased  twenty-four  per  cent 
more  than  the  smokers;  in  growth  in 
height  they  have  surpassed  them 
thirty  nine  per  cent;  and  in  chest  girth, 
forty-two  per  cent,  while  in  lung  ca- 
pacity there  is  a  difference  of  S.36  cubic 
inches  (this  is  about  seventy-rive  per 
cent)  in  favor  of  the  non-smokers, 
which  is  three  per  cent  of  the  total  av- 
erage lung  capacity  of  the  class." — 
From  Good  Health.  July,  1897. 


EFFECT   OF   TOBACCO    OX   THE   EYE- 
SIGHT. 

Professor  Craddock  says  that  tobacco 
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ance. vOne  such  man  admitted  that  he 
had  usually  smoked  from  twenty  Jo 
thirty  cigars  a  day.      He  consented  to 


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